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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Silva, Kumarini, 1972- Brown threat. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016] (DLC) 2016011531 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kumarini Silva |
ISBN: | 9781517900021 1517900026 9781517900038 1517900034 |
OCLC Number: | 944179698 |
Description: | 212 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: America's move from identity to identification -- What is brown? Theorizing race in everyday life -- Un-American: surviving through patriotic performances -- Expulsion and what is not: defining worthiness of American citizenship -- Blackness in brown times: the medicalization of racism -- Conclusion: wielding identity to organize warfare. |
Responsibility: | Kumarini Silva. |
Abstract:
What is "brown" in--and beyond--the context of American identity politics? How has the concept changed since 9/11? In the most sustained examination of these questions to date, Kumarini Silva argues that "brown" is no longer conceived of solely as a cultural, ethnic, or political identity. Instead, after 9/11, the Patriot Act, and the wars in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, it has also become a concept and, indeed, a strategy of identification--one rooted in xenophobic, imperialistic, and racist ideologies to target those who do not neatly fit or subscribe to ideas of nationhood.
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"An essential text on the contemporary mediations of race in America. Kumarini Silva's analysis fills a critical gap in studies of race, arguing for the work done by the malleability of the racialized category of "South Asian brown" for the U.S. security state."-Inderpal Grewal, Yale University Read more...
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- Racism -- United States.
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- Group identity -- United States.
- Citizenship -- United States.
- Internal security -- United States.
- Terrorism -- United States -- Prevention.
- Racisme -- États-Unis.
- Islamophobie -- États-Unis.
- Identité collective -- États-Unis.
- Citizenship.
- Group identity.
- Internal security.
- Islamophobia.
- Racism.
- Terrorism -- Prevention.
- United States.